Glossary and Definitions of Disability Health and Medical Terms


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Many of the words and terms used in the health and medicine field can be confusing and hard to understand. Therefore Disabled World has supplied a number of definitions relating to many of the health and disability terms used on our website which you may encounter. Included in our glossary are the meaning of these words and terminology to make life a little easier.

 

Note: There maybe some overlap of explanations depending on the subject inquiry requested.

Articles

Pub. DateTopicAuthor
2012-01-24Hemiplegia Definition and InformationDisabled World
2011-11-07What is Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY)Assorted References
2011-09-01Disability or Disabled - Which Term is Right?Wikipedia
2010-10-28Disability Alphabet Soup: Sorting Through the Maze of Legal AbbreviationsLewis B. Insler, Esq.
2010-10-09What is Paraplegia - Paraplegic Facts and DefinitionDisabled World
2010-09-26What is Quadriplegia - Quadriplegic Facts and DefinitionDisabled World
2010-09-10Definitions of The Models of DisabilityDisabled World
2010-09-07AAIDD Definition of Intellectual Disability - SSA Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental DisordersAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
2010-06-30Stairlift Glossary of TermsUnicorn Stairlifts
2010-03-06Hospital Departments - DefinitionsDisabled World
2009-12-23Definitions of DisabilityDisabled World
2009-09-05Definition of Back Pain TermsLawrence Gold
2009-05-01Definition of Online Copyright MaterialsThomas C. Weiss
2009-03-17Dental Terms and DefinitionsDisabled World
2009-02-18Prostate Glossary of DefinitionsBarry White
2009-02-17Glossary of US Veteran Affairs DefinitionsBarry White
2009-02-17Environmental Health GlossaryBarry White
2009-01-15Defining Disability TodayKaduwanema John
2009-01-14Definition of the ADAJoseph Devine
2009-01-13Definition of Sensory IntegrationApril Merrilee, MA, OTR
2009-01-11Glossary of Medical and Disability TermsDisabled World
2009-01-11List of Phobias Classified as a DisabilityDisabled World
2009-01-11Definitions and Pronunciation of Medical TermsDisabled World
2009-01-11Glossary of Gerontology DefinitionsDisabled World
2008-12-31Special Education AcronymsJoAnn Collins
2008-12-30List of Types of Cancer and TumorsDisabled World
2008-12-10Caregiver Glossary of TermsDisabled World

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  • MedTerms medical dictionary The medical reference for MedicineNet.com where doctors define difficult medical language in easy-to-understand explanations of medical terms. Medterms online medical dictionary also provides quick access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing.

  • Glossary - Also known as an idioticon, vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. A definition is a passage that explains the meaning of a term (a word, phrase or other set of symbols), or a type of thing. The term to be defined is called the definiendum. A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary which enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including useful idioms or metaphors.

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